We have been super busy here over the past couple of weeks delivering hundreds of presents and hampers to all our young carers and their families. The gifts were kindly donated by the Department of Work and Pensions & Ashville Pre-prep school and were super awesome and thoughtful. In total there were around 100 hampers and 300 gifts! Our young carers couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw all the treats which were wrapped up just for them. We have been generously supported by DWP for 10 years and Ashville Pre Prep for 5 Years, thank you to both of you..YOU.ARE.AWESOME!

Harry is one of our very dedicated Young Carers who is giving up his precious time to support Young Carers aged 7-11 years at the BUDZ youth club. His help has been vital in maintaining the BUDZ youth club. All the children love his positive attitude and amazing parachute games. Thank you Harry, you are a star!!

We had a great summer of trips with the Young carers of Harrogate and Craven. Harrogate alone have had 13 trips with 120 places being offered and 98 individual young carers attending at least one trip!

Eight Craven Young Carers had an amazing weekend sailing with the Ocean Youth Trust North. A big thank you to the crew for helping to make the trip such a memorable experience. Ilkley Community Transport and Skipton Self Drive also supported our young carers getting to North Shields to board the Ocean Venture. A special thank you to Chris Walters.

We’ve had to sadly say good bye to Imogen, our volunteer at our primary school youth club, BUDz. Imogen has been such a great help over the past year and we will all miss her smiley, happy face. Imogen is moving down south to work in an out door residential centre with children. We celebrated the last BUDz sesssion with pizza & sports day! Good luck Imogen 🙂

Our Young Carers Fair was awesome! We managed to secure a small stall at Grove road school in Harrogate on Friday 8th July 2016. Our young carers used their talented skills to create handmade chocolates,cakes, Swiss roll and even some jewelry boxes to raise money for Young carers. They managed to raise an amazing £22!

Here are some pictures from the Young carers first training walk for their upcoming Yorkshire three peak challenge. We walked 3 Miles around Swinsty reservoir In a time of 56 Minutes. Very good effort from the team!

Thanks to the lovely support staff at Harrogate College, enough money was raised to give young adult carers who attend an end of year celebration. Staff held a ‘clothes swap sale’ to raise money and awareness of carers across the college during this stressful exam period. The Go-Karting activity was chosen by our young adult carers, and proved to be the perfect way to celebrate the end of the school year. It was a fast paced, fun and rewarding experience which everyone appreciated and enjoyed!

Another huge thank you to the amazing staff and customers of Yorkshire Building Society in Knaresborugh who collected and donated over 40 Easter eggs and chocolate for the Young carers of Harrogate. Our Budz youth club were very happy to receive one each and hopefully they didn’t eat them all at once!

A big thank you to the staff at Harrogate College, who have been fundraising to support young adult carers. Our project supports many 16-25 years at the college through emotional and peer support, regular outings and a dedicated lunch group. Staff at the college wanted to raise awareness around young adult carers and decided to raise money – and awareness- though a ‘clothes swap’ fundraiser. Staff invited students and staff to donate clothes to sell at the event, and also encouraged them to buy some re-cycled bargains. The money will be spent on an end of year celebration for young adult carers at the college. Thank you!

Congratulations to Oliver Holmes, a Craven young carer, for his recent success in a fencing competition. He won a silver medal!! This means that Oliver will go through to compete at the British Youth Championships in Sheffield in May. Oliver is Awesome!

One of our Young Adult Carers is awesome with her school enterprise project! She was in Santander selling a product her team had chosen called a drink dock. The product has been designed with the intention to stop drinks spilling across the desk at home or at work.. An amazing enterprise idea, well done!

The Young Carers and Families Team have been spreading the word in the local Community about Young Carers and our project, we have visited Horizons (drug and alcohol service), Harrogate Police Station and local schools to talk to them about how to identify Young Carers, how to refer them and what we offer as a service.

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To celebrate Young Carer Awareness day on the 28th January, we hosted a ‘Question Time’ event at our Youth club in Harrogate. We invited professionals from different areas of expertise, from Careers advisers to a local Councillor’ we had it covered. Our Young Carers had the chance to ask those pressing questions that were on their minds. It was a great event and Thank you to all who attended it was Awesome!!

The Young Carers and Families team have been very busy making relaxation and revision boxes for all of our Young Carers who would benefit from one. They include stress balls, colouring books, note pads, something cuddley, fidget toys, story books, revision tips, post-it notes, highlighters etc. We are proud of them and think they will benefit many of our Young Carers.

A big thank you to all young carers who were involved in Young Carers Awareness Day. A special thank you to Callum and Alfie for sharing their story with the Craven Herald, The Yorkshire Post, The Keighley News and BBC Look North.

Our young carer’s team have been busy delivering hampers kindly donated by the Department of Work and Pensions. Around 90 hampers were donated for our young carer’s and their families to enjoy over the festive period. Here, young carer Emily shows her thanks to us on Facebook . Emily – you’re AWESOME!

The Budz had lots of fun making Pudsey themed treats. Children in Need is a truly awesome charity which helps us to support young carers through their grants. Thanks to them and to everyone who donated on the night making it possible!